Elena Stikhina

Following acclaimed debuts at the Paris Opéra, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Salzburg Festival, the soprano Elena Stikhina has swiftly established herself as a guest artist at opera houses including the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Berlin State Opera, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus.  

In the 2021/22 season she returned to the Metropolitan Opera and to Covent Garden as Tosca, and made her Vienna State Opera debut in the same role, sang Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and appeared as the soprano soloist in Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra. She also appeared at the Zurich Opera in the title role of Salome.  

During the Covid-19 pandemic she appeared regularly at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, where in 2021 she made her role debut as Renata in a live broadcast of Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel. In the same year, she made her debut as Salome at La Scala, Milan. She first appeared at the Salzburg Festival in the title role in Cherubini’s Médée in 2019, and returned in 2021 as the soprano soloist in Britten’s War Requiem.  

In summer 2019 she made her UK debut at the BBC Proms, performing Tatyana’s ‘Letter Scene’ from Eugene Onegin. Other recent highlights have included her debut at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam as Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Tosca, Leonora (La forza del destino) and Yaroslavna (Prince Igor) at the Paris Opéra, Tosca and Leonora (Il trovatore) in Berlin and Dresden, Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) in Baden-Baden and Munich and the title role in Suor Angelica in New York.  

Following early appearances at the Primorsky Stage in Vladivostok, Elena Stikhina became a guest artist at the Mariinsky Theatre. She completed her studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2012, and gained international attention when she won first prize at the Competizione dell’Opera in Linz in 2014, and the audience and CulturArte prizes at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition in 2016.